Firefox 43 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux is available for testing, doesn’t brings new features though, but you’ll be annoyed with Search with Google result for a Phrase or search query displayed by browser in the awesome bar in drop down and if you’ve allowed Firefox browser to improve search experience with suggestions, get ready to see search suggestions right in the address bar! These are fetched and displayed in real-time from default search engine.

Due to privacy concerns, Mozilla has not enabled the feature by default, as said before: if you’ve clicked ‘Yes’ to the notification shown in the awesome bar, Firefox adds ‘Show search suggestions in location bar results’ option in Search preferences and enables it.

Do note that Firefox 43 is still in beta, when it reaches release channel, Mozilla may release it or withdraws the idea of showing search suggestions in the awesome bar and even the notification about it. Update: The feature is available.

UPDATE 18/12/2015: Take a look at fixes to Firefox 43’s annoyances and changes below

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Thank you! For the record, I like the feature, but it’s just not how I use Firefox: I use the awesomebar to autocomplete from the browser history, not to search, so this new feature made things worse for me, not better: it put my desired autocomplete results one menu item position below where they’ve been for years!

Thank you so much as well! I agree with Mick, this comes off as change for the sake of change more than anything else. Out of all the things their developers could be working on to implement or improve, *this* is what makes list of prod features…?? Bleah…..